From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 13:16:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3374437B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx20b.rmci.net (mx20b.rmci.net [205.162.184.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5321B43FDD for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:16:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from massey@rmci.net) Received: (qmail 7353 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 21:16:16 -0000 Received: from webmailb.rmci.net (HELO rmci.net) (205.162.184.93) by mx20.rmci.net with SMTP; 27 Feb 2003 21:16:16 -0000 Received: from 216.222.104.2 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user massey@rmci.net) by webmail.velocitus.net with HTTP; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:16:16 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <2056.216.222.104.2.1046380576.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:16:16 -0700 (MST) Subject: Floppy installalation From: To: In-Reply-To: <2856.216.222.104.2.1046370391.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> References: <1046362704.3e5e3a501cf1f@webmail.lphp.org> <200302271859.49437.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20030227180732.GC1970@bus.net> <200302271919.05960.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <2856.216.222.104.2.1046370391.squirrel@webmail.velocitus.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: massey@rmci.net X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I need to install 5.0 via floppy disks. The /bin does not exsist in 5 only /base. Will the /bin directions from the handbook work the same? Is there a way to do a min install with floppies and then use /stand/sysinstall to finish it off? This is the break down, IBM ThinkPad 765D, to old to boot from CD ROM, Headless, cable, ftp all failed. Unit worked with Linux and is in good condition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message